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For, if we judge aright, there is no greater
benefit that we can confer on our clients than this,
that we should not cheat them by giving them empty
hopes of success. On the other hand, no client that
does not take his advocate into his counsel deserves
that advocate's assistance, and it is certainly unworthy
of our ideal orator that he should wittingly defend
injustice. For if he is led to defend what is false
by any of the motives which I mentioned above,1 his
own action will still be honourable.
1 XII. i. 36.
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